Today my Boda taxi driver was very charismatic and inquisitive. He asked me all sorts of questions, but one of the first ones, of course was “Where are you from?” I said I was from America, and he got a huge smile (I could see in his side mirrors) and started hooting and hollering (like the laughs described in my previous posts). So I said “What? What’s so great??” And he said “You are Obama country.” And I said yes he’s our president. He said “We LOVE Obama!” I laughed, and said “Oh yeah? Why do you like him?” He said “Because he have black blood.” So I said “Oh yeah? You like him because he’s black?? That’s it? But he’s a terrible president! Do you know that?” He kinda chuckled and said “We like him because he black.” I chuckled and kind of said under my breath “Americans too… Americans too.”
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